not just bikes

this is a film/documentary review of this great doc C and I watched.


Man on Wire is an exercise, no, a meditation on uneasiness. Phillipe Petit, a french carny like fellow, is a tight rope walker who sets his dreams on "conquering" - or rather tight rope walking across the distance of the World trade Center buildings in Manhattan back in 1974 a.d. intermixed with his own personal video of his youth and modern day interviews with him and his cohorts - the doc will send shivers up your spine as you watch the action go down - everything from his lust after the tight rope walk itself to the tons and tons of preparation hours that were involved in order to get himself, his cohorts, and his equipment onto the top of the most highly symbolized pieces of architecture in the western world. A little creepy watching this old footage of these buildings, seeing as how in their place now is nothing but a huge hole and possibly, by now, a memorial of some sort.